After her first two children, Queen Elizabeth II waited more than a decade before having more—she was busy being Queen after all. She and Prince Philip welcomed Andrew in 1960 and Prince Edward in 1964. The, which premiered in December on Netflix, picks up roughly a decade after the Queen's coronation, meaning viewers will get an insight into her family life. Ahead of the new episodes, we look into the monarch's private role as a mother to four children.
Prince Charles The relationship between the Queen and her heir has been a source of much fascination and debate. Elizabeth's official royal duties fell on her while her children were still quite young—she and Phillip famously embarked on a six month Commonwealth tour soon after her coronation and left the children at home in England—and Elizabeth was part of a generation and class that routinely left the daily care of small children in the hands of household staff. This has led to suggestions that Charles did not form as strong a bond with his mother as he had with nannies and his beloved grandmother. According to historian Robert Lacy, who also served as an advisor for The Crown and the Queen believed it was better to leave the children in the care of nannies rather than drag them around the world. 'She had been brought up in that style herself, after all, with her parents leaving her at home and entrusting her entire schooling to a governess and home tutors,' he told Town & Country. In his controversial 1994 authorized biography of Prince Charles, Jonathan Dimbleby quotes the Prince of Wales saying it was 'inevitably the nursery staff' who taught him to play, witnessed his first steps, and punished and rewarded him. And in her recent, Sally Bedell-Smith shares a similar view.
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'When Elizabeth became Queen on the death of her father, her dedication to her duties meant even less time for her children,' the historian wrote. 'She relied increasingly on her husband to make the major family decisions and she depended on the nannies to supervise the daily lives,' adding that the Queen and Duke saw the children after breakfast and teatime but 'in the manner of the upper class, neither of them were physically demonstrative.' Prince Charles was very close to his grandmother, the Queen Mother, and that she doted on him. In 2013, revealed that she had tried to persuade her daughter and son-in-law to send young Charles to Eton, which was closer to London, rather than send him to Gordonstoun School in Scotland, where he was eventually educated. At the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002, Prince Charles delivered an emotional tribute: 'For me, she meant everything and I had dreaded, dreaded this moment along with, I know, countless others. Somehow, I never thought it would come.
She seemed gloriously unstoppable and, since I was a child, I adored her.' Princess Anne The has publicly opposed the opinion that her mother was not as caring or involved as she perhaps should have been. 'I simply don't believe there is any evidence what so ever to suggest that she wasn't caring. It just beggars belief,' Anne said during a characteristically sharp-tongued 2002 interview with. According to Lacy, Anne grew close to mother as a teenager. 'Princess Anne and the Princes Andrew and Edward have all made public their disagreement with Charles in his criticism of the parenting they received.
With her love of horses, Anne developed an especially close relationship with her mother during her teenage years, giving her advice about fashion and clothes,' he said. Anne isn't the only one who offered proof of her mother's motherly warmth. Lacy notes that, once said that the Queen's favorite night of the week was 'Mabel's night off'—Mabel was the nanny to both Charles and Anne as children. 'When nanny Mabel was off duty, Elizabeth could kneel beside the bath, bathe her babies, read to them and put them to bed herself,' he added. Prince Andrew There is an almost 12-year gap between the Queen and Duke's first and third children, Charles and Andrew.
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